Do Glasses Make You Look Smarter in Your Headshot?
Do glasses make you look smarter? They can. Glasses tend to make you look smarter; depending on the frames, they can also make you look a bit less attractive. In
October 15, 2026
A great headshot isn’t luck, and it isn’t about being photogenic. It’s expression, lighting, wardrobe, and knowing what to do once the camera’s on you, and most of that is learnable. This is where I share what a decade of shooting Boston professionals has taught me, so your next headshot actually pulls its weight. No fluff, just what works.
Do glasses make you look smarter? They can. Glasses tend to make you look smarter; depending on the frames, they can also make you look a bit less attractive. In
In the run-up to the 2006 midterms, Princeton psychologist Alexander Todorov showed people pairs of faces for a tenth of a second and asked one question: which person looks more
What is the right thing to wear for headshots, which fabrics and colors fail on camera, and why you should bring more options than you think you need. Bring more
When someone lands on your company’s team page, they’ve already formed a snap judgment about whether your firm is trustworthy and competent, sometimes in well under a second, before they’ve
Thirty-nine dollars for a headshot that beats your phone’s selfie camera is a genuinely good deal. I’m not going to pretend otherwise, and if you’re a job seeker in the
A company headshot day happens once or twice a year. New hires don’t stop coming just because the shoot is over, and every one of them needs a headshot that
An engaging LinkedIn headshot does three things at once: it looks like you on a genuinely good day, it reads as competent, confident and approachable within the first fraction of
I’m not against AI. I use it. If I need to clean up glasses glare or swap a background, it does in ten minutes what used to take me an
I sold real estate in Boston before I ever picked up a camera for a living, so I’ve seen the agent headshot problem from both sides: the awkward yard sign
Every headshot photographer’s website says the same thing: professional lighting. This statement is not only subjective, but in many cases meaningless. Professional could mean four studio strobes and diffusion panels
Pulling twenty attorneys out of a downtown Boston office for headshots used to mean losing an afternoon to a studio across town. It doesn’t have to work that way
I’ve photographed enough Boston attorneys over the past ten years to notice a pattern, and it has nothing to do with wardrobe. Attorneys dress well, every time. What trips people